Out of the past 1/25/04

10 years ago: Jan. 25, 1994

Jackson Board of Aldermen got its first look last night at written proposals from two private solid waste management firms to buy or lease city landfill.

Horse lovers in Ozarks lament Monday's ruling by U.S. Supreme Court that allows federal government to remove small bands of wild horses from Ozark National Riverways, 140-mile strip of wilderness along Current and Jacks Fork rivers in southern Missouri.

25 years ago: Jan. 25, 1979

With two-thirds of its mission accomplished, towboat flotilla breaking ice on Mississippi River continues crunching its way northward past Cape Girardeau.

Rus Sloan, athletic director at Southeast Missouri State University for past 15 years, announces his resignation; he is going to California, where he will be executive director of "Bulldog Foundation," main fund-raising arm of University of California-Fresno Athletic Department.

50 years ago: Jan. 25, 1954

George H. Deneke, farmer of near Whitewater, files in county clerk's office as candidate for Republican nomination for associate judge of county court from second district.

Don Edwards, 21, Cape Girardeau man who was released by Chinese communists last September after being prisoner of war, re-enlists in Army.

75 years ago: Jan. 25, 1929

Lashed by blizzard that has gripped Midwest for two days, Cape Girardeau district feels wintry blasts sent down from northwest.

Troy Kinder, rural mail carrier at Burfordville, narrowly escaped drowning Thursday when he attempted to cross flooded Dillard's Creek, while on his route; he saved himself by swimming free of torrent, after his team of horses had been swept from its feet and one, tangled in harness, drowned.

-- Sharon K. Sanders